EU heads of state or government met in Brussels to discuss the most pressing policy priorities for the European Union.

During the meeting on 29-30 June the discussions focused on recent developements in Russia's war against Ukraine, including the destructive impact of the Nova Kakhovka dam's destruction over the Dnipro river and the significant humanitarian and ecological consequences it caused. 

The European Council reiterated its resolute condemnation of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.  The European Union will continue to provide strong financial, economic, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support to Ukraine and its people for as long as it takes. The European Council reconfirmed the EU’s readiness to provide sustainable military support to Ukraine for as long as it takes, notably through the EU Military Assistance Mission and the European Peace Facility.

The European Council condemned in the strongest terms the deliberate destruction of the dam at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, which has devastating humanitarian, ecological, agricultural and economic repercussions and puts at risk the safety and security of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.